Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford, book cover

Shorty McCabe on the Job

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First published
1915
Pages
242

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Sewell Ford's genial ex-pug turned physical-culture instructor returns for another round of episodes narrated in thick New York slang. This time Shorty McCabe finds himself roped into the tangled estate of the late Pyramid Gordon, a millionaire who left three million dollars and instructions to make amends to the people he wronged. Paired with the slippery J. Bayard Steele, Shorty tracks down Gordon's old victims and doles out unexpected kindnesses, and each errand becomes its own comic chapter. Ford writes in a breezy, dialect-heavy voice full of dropped g's and turn-of-the-century wisecracks. Readers who enjoy the loose, character-driven humor of early American magazine fiction will find these linked stories warm, quick, and quietly big-hearted beneath the wit.

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Sewell Ford

Sewell Ford (1868-1946) was an American humorist and author best known for his popular Torchy and Shorty McCabe stories, written in the colorful vernacular of the era.

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Book facts

First published
1915
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
242
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online